December 10th 2015

We’re happy to inform you that Citizen Matters was one of three finalists in the first ever #innovationforgood award, instituted by the Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change in collaboration with SASNET at Lund University, Sweden. We received the honorary prize at the Media and Innovation Days Conference on December 9th 2015, at New Delhi.

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Subin Paul, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa is conducting a research study to understand Indian citizen journalists’ motivation for producing online content. If you have contributed to Citizen Matters as a citizen journalist, do take the survey! Participants who complete the survey are eligible to enter a raffle – 30 Flipkart gift cards worth Rs 300 are up for grabs.

Before television and other gadgets took over the lives of children, trading matchboxes for the artwork on the labels was a way of life. Read: Life pre-TV.

The week that was

BBMP has decided to contribute Rs 3 crore to the Chennai relief fund. The Palike has already pooled 2.5 crore by deducting a day’s salary from staff, and entitlements of elected corporators, Mayor B N Manjunath Reddy said.

Following the controversy surrounding the misuse of the Lokayukta office, Y Bhaskar Rao resigned from his post this week. Rao who was on leave from his office since July 27th, sent in his resignation to the Governor.

For the first time after Metro underground tunneling works started, a house that developed cracks due to Tunnel Boring Machine in Balepet will be demolished. BBMP officials have deemed the one four-storeyed residential complex as unsafe.

The BWSSB has submitted to the High Court bench hearing a petition by Citizen Action Group, that 45 lakes that were recently included under BBMP would be cleaned by March 2016.

A model of an Indian Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has been newly installed at Minsk Square this week. When the metro rail work began, a model of the Ajeet single seater interceptor which was at Minsk Square for long time was removed.

The long saga for commuters across the Whitefield railway line in Kadugodi may yet end, with safety approval granted just this week. A top site engineer asks citizens to wait for another 2½ months for the bridge to be opened.

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